Improvement in trusses



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE JACOB A. SHERMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRUSSES.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,926, dated June17, 1873; application filed November 5, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB A. SHERMAN, of the city and State of New York,have invented an Improvement in Trusses, of-which the following is aspecification:

In this truss the pad is connected, by a spring or bar, with the strapthat passes between the legs and the same strap is connected, by a baror spring, with the pressure-bar that is held upon the body by the waistbelt or strap, so that the pad is pressed to its place by the yieldingaction of a spring. It is free to accommodate itself to the hernia andis much less liable to be displaced by the movement of the body whenconnected primarily to the strap passing between the legs than in caseswhere it is connected with the strap passin g around the hips, becauseto the latter strap there is considerable motion from the muscles of thehips and lower part of the body.

In the drawing, the improvement is represented by a perspective view.

The pad a is of a size and shape adapted to the hernia. The spring I)and bar a are connected together and to the strap d that passes betweenthe legs and attaches to the body-strap e. The bar fis inserted, at itsends, in the portions of the strap e,*and connected therewith, and thespring I) and bar a intervene between this bar f and the pad a. Thespring may be connected to the bar f, and the bar 0 to the pad a, or thereverse.

These bars f and 0 may be bent to suit the shape of the body, or toproduce more or less pressure; and, when in use, itlwill be found thatthe pad to will bear upon the hernia, and that there will be less riskof slipping than with pads that receive their principal support from thebody-belt and bar or spring and, in consequence of the pad a beingconnected to the bar or spring by a joint, and the spring or bar 0 beingconnected to the bar f, the parts are free to move with the body withoutdisplacing the pad.

I claim as my invention Thetruss-pad ((1, connected to a bar or'springat the end of the strap passing between the legs, in combination with aspring or bar also connected with said strap and the bar f and waistbelt6, as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this 30th day of October, A. D1872.

. J. A. SHERMAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH.

